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Man, 20, dies amid Ferguson protests

Family nearby the apartment complex identified a man killed as DeAndre Joshua, 20. (Some family said he was 21) Brian Joshua, who is married to the late man's grandmother, said the late man had graduated high

FERGUSON, Mo. — Amid the rubble and ashes of a city convulsed in anger over the death of Michael Brown, a different family stood in shock and grief over the death of another young black man: DeAndre Joshua, 20.

At 9 a.m. Tuesday, a resident of an apartment complex spotted Joshua's body inside a parked car, a white Pontiac Grand Prix, near Canfield Green Apartments, the same complex where Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson shot Brown on Aug. 9. Blood-soaked shattered glass lay in a pile on the ground beside the car.

Family members said Joshua's death is tied to the protests that consumed Ferguson after St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch revealed the grand jury's decision not to indict Wilson. But family members said they did not know specifically how he died.

"I'm still stunned because he never had any problems. He was a good kid," relative Brian Joshua, 45 said, as other family members sobbed. "It's like somebody just hit us with a brick."

DeAndre Joshua graduated from high school and worked at Walmart, he said.

Walmart said Joshua had worked at Walmart as a stocker for more than a year.

"We are deeply saddened to learn the news that one of our Walmart family members tragically lost his life," Dacona Smith, senior vice president for operations at Walmart, said.

As police towed Joshua's car, his grandmother Renita Towns said she had little hope that police would investigate and learn the cause of her grandson's death.

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Detectives investigate the scene of a shooting near the Canfield Green Apartments on Nov. 25 in Ferguson, Mo. DeAndre Joshua, 20, was discovered dead in his white Pontiac Grand Prix on the corner of Windward Court and Glen Owen Drive, block away from where teenager Michael Brown was killed by a Ferguson police officer on Aug. 9. Nick Oza, for USA TODAY

A woman reacts at the scene of the shooting as police officers investigate. Amid the rubble and ashes of a city convulsed in anger over the death of Michael Brown, a different family stood in shock and grief over the death of another young black man: DeAndre Joshua. Nick Oza, for USA TODAY

People watch police investigate the shooting on the corner of Windward Court and Glen Owen Drive in Ferguson. Family members said Joshua's death is tied to the protests that consumed Ferguson after St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch revealed the grand jury's decision not to indict Wilson. But family members said they did not know specifically how he died. Nick Oza, for USA TODAY

Friends and family of DeAndre Joshua grieve at the scene of the shooting. "I'm still stunned because he never had any problems. He was a good kid," relative Brian Joshua, 45 said, as other family members sobbed. "It's like somebody just hit us with a brick." Nick Oza, for USA TODAY

People react at the scene of the shooting. As police towed Joshua's car, his grandmother, Renita Towns, said she had little hope that police would investigate and learn the cause of her grandson's death. "Police don't care — he's black," Towns said. Nick Oza, for USA TODAY